Re: Tarsnap failing to make backups

[Michael Jung <mikej@mikej.com>]

On 2020-04-14 16:10, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:56:05PM -0400, Michael Jung wrote:
> > Tarsnap 1.0.39
> > FreeBSD 12.0 r326073
>
> Thanks for the report!  At the moment I don't have any leads, but a few 
> more
> pieces of info might give a clue.
>
> Is that installed via ports / pkg, or compiled from the official 1.0.39
> tarball?
>
> Also, what does your tarsnap cache directory look like?  As per
> https://www.tarsnap.com/cachedir.html
> I would expect to see 3 or 4 files (cseq, directory, lockf; and 
> probably cache
> as well).
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Thanks for the quick response!

Tarsnap is compiled from /usr/ports/sysutils/tarsnap

My tarsnap cache directory looks like:

[root@firewall /var/cache]# ls -laR tarsnap/
total 49160
drwx------  2 root  wheel       512 Aug 14  2019 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel       512 Aug 12  2019 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26189016 Aug 14  2019 cache
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        64 Aug 14  2019 cseq -> 
e13093bd485c4a9163a1c935e6af5ef4bb14a8bd4b29ce1a22220173b0c518f6
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24033432 Aug 14  2019 directory
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         0 Nov 24  2017 lockf
[root@firewall /var/cache]#

Tarsnap runs as "root" via cron although it still fails if I run in 
manually.

Is there any debugging that can be turned on to get a better idea of 
whats going on?

Thanks again,

--mikej